Jemaine Clement is the latest in a long string of actors who have been announced to join the Avatar sequels. But the New Zealand-born actor is seemingly the first all-out comedian to join the sprawling cast, suggesting the multiple sequels to James Cameron‘s 2009 sci-fi mega-hit could be gaining a sense of humor. But that’s down to what kind of character Clement is playing.

The official Avatar Twitter continues to roll out the casting announcements, even as filming for the sequels has long been underway. According to the announcement, Clement will be playing a marine biologist on Pandora named Dr. Garvin.

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Jemaine Clement has been cast in the Avatar sequels as Dr. Garvin, a marine biologist on Pandora.

Clement will be playing yet another scientist! Groundbreaking! Perhaps Sigourney Weaver‘s Dr. Grace Augustine (who died in the first film, but is somehow back) is stocking up her staff after the events of the first Avatar nearly decimated the humans residing on Pandora. But whatever the case, at least Clement can inject some of his trademark weird comedy into the role, which he perfected in HBO’s hit comedy series Flight of the Conchords and in the hysterical mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows. But the actor has been stretching out into more dramatic roles recently, though they’re still decidedly eccentric, like his unnerving role as Oliver Bird in FX’s mind-bending Legion.